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Location: SoCal | You don't need a whole lot more than 3 chords to make music. My uncle played his 1914 0018 Martine (nylong string and now in my care -- family heirlom) and only knew 7 chords (I counted once). He got more music out of that guitar than I will ever get and I'm all over the neck.
The music is in you, not the guitar. The guitar (hopfully Ovations) just happen to be our way to get the music out.
In my case, I seem to be a bit consitpated. |
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Location: Maine | Cliff,
Saw Ray Davies last October doing a storyteller show with two Legends, both S/S, one Cherryburst, the other Greenburst. At the end of the show he tossed his well used copy of X-Ray into the audience. Unfortunately I wasn't close enough... |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Paul
I play mandolin mostly, 7 or 8 chords almost does it on a mandolin, you just move them up and down the neck and throw in some transition runs. I say use the KISS method where ever you can. You are right, play music, trying to impress with technique is a loser in most cases. Except for Chet Atkins of course, but he already done it and left the building.
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Location: Chicago | Dewey Bunnell (sp) played the Bicentennial Ovation (The Patriot)...among other Ovations. I have one and have always loved it's sound and action. The latter was high enough to give the guitar a robust-not thin-Ovation sound. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I wanted to get this in somewhere and this looks like a good place.
Saturday night's Grand Ole Opry live had appearances by Jamie O'Neill (a lady singer) and Lee Greenwood and each had an Ovation mandolin in their backup bands. I got a closeup look at the one in the Jamie O'Neill set, and it had a natural wood top and looked like some really nice abalone binding and trim or something similar. Do those mandolins come with different levels of trim or was that a custom order? I didn't get a good look at the one in Lee Greenwood's set, but it looked similar, they might have borrowed the same one.
Anyway, I'm seeing these mandolins more & more, Ovation may have something there. Now my wish list is an Ovation 12 string and an 8 string, maybe I could get my wife to approve a second on the house. Anybody out there know how to do that, convince the wife that is, I know how to get the mortgage?
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Location: Scotland | I think there was a few 30th anniversary mandos with abalone trim
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Location: new orleans | I know i'm new(and young)jim and cat were both great influences on my playing, but what about nancy "hot legs" wilson she played o's for a while. How bout the doobie bros.?(sorry i'm from the south)they always had a ovation on stage somewhere... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Bailey, There were some "book" (30th anniversary, not to be confused with the collectors series) mandolins made. Make it one of those. There were also a couple if the A/E Vipers and a few others. While you're at putting on the addition put a mandocello on the list, guitar scale but with 4 pairs of strings, 80, 60, 40 and about a 20 I think. There are a dozen or two of these out there. Check Mando Bandits in Stalin Island, NY |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Thanks Paul and cwktwo, it was a pretty mandolin and probably the one you describe. with the mandocello, a second mortgage wont make it, I'll sell the house and hit the road with my collection.
Hobo Bailey (will work for string money) |
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